“More than feeling ashamed, I feel pain. Pain for the murder of a little baby. Pain that my people have
chosen the path of terror and have lost their humanity. Their way is not my way. Their way is not our way.
Their way is not the way of the State of Israel and not the way of the Jewish people. Unfortunately, until now,
we have treated the phenomenon of Jewish terror loosely. Maybe we didn’t internalize that we are facing an
ideological group, determined and dangerous which aims to destroy the delicate bridges we build with great
labor.”
--President Reuven Rivlin in his speech at the protest rally in Jerusalem against Israeli violence and in a
post on his Facebook page.

You Must Be Kidding:"Shame on you," "You are not my president," "You do not represent me in any way," "The President of the
Arabs, not the Jews."
--Some of the comments and curses written on the Facebook page of President Reuven Rivlin after he condemned
the attack by Jewish terrorists, who killed a Palestinian baby.

"In the face of a wave of terror against the innocent, the loss of life, and the loss of law and order,
the State of Israel and Israeli society must carry out some soul searching."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin comments after the murder of a Palestinian infant by settlers and the
stabbing of six participants of a gay pride parade by an ultra-Orthodox man.**

You Must Be Kidding:“At least you could have succeeded in killing a few of those damned perverts.”
--Yedioth quotes Facebook post by Gilad Klainer on the stabbing of six participants
in Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade.

“At this crucial point of the Iranian issue – which for years has been at the core of Israeli foreign
policy and was described countless times by the Israeli leadership as an existential threat – the Jewish
community in the United States is not standing as a united front behind Israel and important parts of it are on
the fence."
--Israeli consul in Philadelphia wrote in a confidential telegram.

You Must Be Kidding:"They have even started arranging them in groups of threes and moving them into rows like in recruit
service, or playing with them, making one of them sit and the other stand up alternately."
--From testimony of a Border Police about humiliation of Palestinians, part of a report about wild-scale abuses against Palestinians at two checkpoints in West Bank
run by Israeli Border Police.

"At first it was strange and scary to write and be in contact with our enemy, but with time, I
discovered that the people in the group are really nice. You, the Iraqi Jews, are actually like our brothers
because you are part of the history of my country and like me you love the country that it was."

“I want to focus on how we lost among the young against a strong and organized right that bequeaths
values of ethnic superiority and contempt for human rights, a media that implants racist, nationalistic
messages, and an educational system that is controlled by a strong right-wing.”

--Meretz chief MK Zehava Gal-On said the left-wing camp must examine why it lost the elections - and even
suggests connecting with other parties.**